This film made me think long and hard about the city I live in. It kind of hit home because I see something similar happening in my neighborhood today. Racism had alwaysys been an issue innthis country but gentrification is used as the forefront to allow it. Fulton mall was like a haven for the African American population that lived in Brooklyn during the 70’s. It was a way of life that many people adapted to and even more thrived. That was destroyed when city developers believed that capitalizing on something that was going well needed to be “fix”. I feel strongly about the way the city seems to always push this one specific demographic down whenever they are rising. They were pushed into an area and made it work for them and adapted to their environment. Now thatbtheybare making an unknown place profitable developers feel they can just come and take that away from them. They already weren’t getting good places to live or work and now they have to move because of someone’s habit of being greedy. The developers and city officials included might say that they were trying to make the Fulton Mall area more profitable but to me it only made things worst because now that neighborhood has lost its identity and flare it once had. Gentrification is doing more harm than good and those that aren’t directly affected by it couldn’t care less because at the end of the day they will still have what’s theirs. That’s was evident in the film when they asked white folks about their thoughts on the mall and the only responses that were received was negativity. New York will lose its fame and identity sooner or later because all these empty condos being built won’t have any residents residing in them due to high rent and non affordable living.